Mona Dunlop Co-President • Bo Carvacho Co-President • Rich Boschetti President - Elect • Larry Damaser Past PresidentParvin Manuchehri Stephany Jenkins Co-Chair Treasurer • Alan Brown Youth Services • Beverely Herrera Social Chair

Kamal Della Foundation • Rich Bennett International Service • Michael Kyle Seargent at Arms • Rich Boschetti MC Kulick Co-Chair Membership Don Price Secretary • Melissa Strah Community Service • Ron Mazur Club Service • Lee Denlinger Vocational Service

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Volume XLIII Issue No. 20 June 8, 2016

THE DUBLIN SHAMROCK

The Rotary Club of Dublin, California 2015–2016The World 's Friendliest Rotary Club

We Say Goodbye to Ted HoffmanTed passed away on May 30 at age 76 after a lengthy illness. Ted was a member of Dublin Rotary for 26 years and was a strong supporter of club activities. We remember him for his generosity, his integrity and his very friendly manner. He was born in Philadelphia in 1940, the oldest of seven. The son of a Bowling Pro-

prietor, Ted was a star bowler in suburban Philadelphia in his teens. At 16 he was the youngest bowler in the world to record a sanctioned perfect 300 game. He married Marilynn in 1961. In 1964 he was selected as Pennsylvania "Bowler-of-the-Year" by the Philadelphia Sportswriters Association and was a winner of the famed Newsday Long Island Open Tournament. It was then that he decided to test the waters of the PBA National Tour where he qualifi ed for the match play fi nals in his fi rst national PBA tournament.

His competition ca-reer included more than 100 PBA tour events, including four second place fi nishes and two regional titles. After bowling in so many tournaments

he decided it was time to stay home and help raise his four sons. In 1968, the Hoffmans left Philadelphia and moved to California where he managed a group of players sponsored by Smallcomb Enterprises, a new concept in bowling.

In 1968, he started the PBA western region and served as Western Region Director for 20 years. His organizational and leadership skills led to his election to the PBA Executive Board and Investment Advisory Committee.

In 1972, he won the fi rst Pat Patterson award for his outstanding contributions in the Western Region. In April, 2016 he became the fi rst person to win it a second time. In 1984, he became the managing partner with the late Earl Anthony in the bowling center in Dublin that bares Earl’s name. Over the ensuing years, Earl

Anthony’s D u b -l in Bowl h o s t e d numerous n a t i o n a l a n d r e -gional tournaments including the Earl Anthony Memorial PBA Regional tourna-ment which Ted ran as a tribute to his late partner beginning in 2002.

In 1985, Ted was induced in the PBA Hall of Fame for Meritorious Service, one of eight (!) halls of fame to honor him. As

managing p a r t n e r and own-er in the e n s u i n g year s, he b e c a m e President

of NorCal BPA, and on the national level, he was a board member of BPAA and was on many BPAA committees. His involvement and hard work led to him being name recipient of BPAA’s 2010 Victor Lerner Memorial Medal, BPAA’s highest honor.

As proprietor of Dub-lin Bowl, Ted became very involved in the lo-cal community. He was a member of Dublin Rotary for 26 years, and

also served as President and Board Member of Dublin Chamber of Com-merce. He was on the DPIE (Dublin Partners in Education) board, which raises money to support Dublin area schools.

He enjoyed traveling, playing golf and spending time with family and friends. Ted is survived by his wife Marilynn of 55 years, four sons -- Ted, Tim, Chris and David -- seven grandchildren and one great grandchild. He will be re-membered as a loving husband, proud father, and devoted grandfather.

Ted awarded hundreds of complimen-tary bowling games to Dublin Rotary’s student award winners, hosted numer-ous club activities, and presided over

spec ia l fun recognitions of Rotar ian mothers-to-be by arrang-ing drawings for members to guess due

dates. He also was key to incoming President Bob Tucknott’s weight loss campaign. We defi nitely remember Ted as a fun loving person.

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Shamekka Marty: Life CoachTed Hoffman cont'd from page 1

New member Shamekka Marty intro-duced herself to the club on Tuesday, focusing on her work as a speaker on behalf of Lupus. Lupus is a debilitating disease that caused the death of both her mother and her grandmother. She was fi rst diagnosed in 2012 although she expected to eventually contract the disease, which is 95 percent attributable to genetic factors.

Mekka says that Lupus is the worst of her problems which unfortunately include fi bromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, Raynaud’s and IBS. She speaks to the community so she can inspire people, both sufferers and others, to not give in to debilitating problems, but to work to rise above them. She wants to inspire people to fi nd their life’s purpose and to seek and help others in pain.

Shamekka Marty is new to the bay area and moved to San Ramon last fall. She came from South Jersey with her husband Henry and her kids Amaru, Alejandra and Antonio. Mekka was born and raised in Williamstown, NJ which is a suburb of Philadelphia. She graduated from Rutgers University with a Project Manage-ment degree. For the past 3 years Mekka has worked for JP Morgan Chase as a Remote IT Project Manager based out of Delaware. She is working on a book for daily motivation as well as getting her foundation --Project Smiles – off the ground.

Mekka is a strong advocate for the Lupus Foundation and is very dedicated to helping those who have serious affl ictions. She is a very strong addition to our club!

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Tara Firma Farms

Last week we heard from Adam Taggart and Adam Parks of Tara Firma Farms, a 238 acre ranch near Petaluma. The two Adams just bought the farm from its founders and have operated it since February of this year. The idea is to raise and sell healthy meat. This article bor-rows from the company website. The stated Philosophy is to “grow the mind to grow the soil to grow the food that strengthens the community.”

The Adams follow a philosophy of building and supporting the processes that re-engage the natural life cycles on their farm. These cycles are all intercon-nected; from microbial life in the soil to grasses to the animals that use and

support that grass and more. Because stress is the enemy of all living things, their goal is to support these natural processes and intentionally avoid any and all stress for all involved in these cycles. They do not use hormones or chemicals of any kind in the raising of the animals. With no stress and a healthy lifestyle they never get sick!

Under the category of values, they have learned some disturbing facts about the current industrial food system but many more inspiring solutions that honor the land, animals, and life cycles critical to the planets survival. Through this process they are guided by core values that they believe are critically important to the environment and future of food:

Provide the animals, plants, and soil a happy, stress-free, healthy lifestyle.

Grazing the animals in a way that revives grassland to sequester car-bon from the atmosphere.

Allowing their animals access to a plethora of greens thereby trans-ferring valuable nutrition to the consumers.

Offer an environment where peo-ple can comfortably learn about where their food comes from and interact with those processes.

No chemicals or drugs of any kind in/on land or animals.

Tara Firma Farms feeds about 1,000 families a month through meat deliv-eries. They raise and sell beef, pork, chickens and turkey.

Tuesday, June 14 and 21Club meets at Dublin Library

Tuesday, June 28Demotion Night!

See Larry Damaser

June 28 to July 4Dublin Rotary Fireworks

sales at Hooters.

Tuesday, July 5Rich Boschetti’s

Rotary year begins!

Saturday, July 16 Club BBQ and Pool Party for the

whole family at Rich Bennett’s. Noon to 6 p.m. Hold the date!

Coming Events 9JUNE

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Around The Library

Patty Pringle was happy to report that the fi nal dictionary distribution day – this one at Dublin Elementary – wasjust completed. The kids, says Patty, are excited about the colorful, yet wordy, dictionaries. Although Kamal wasn’t at this week’s meeting, last week he received the congratulations of all the members. The fi nal tally was $15,000 in net profi ts, an additional $1,000 in bicycle donations which means $5,250 each for the Club Foundation and for the School of Imagination. The club and the assisting Interactors divvy up the fi nal $4,500. The club passed the hat for a donation to the Kidney Founda-tion in memory of Ted Hoffman; the fi nal tally will be $1,000 including a club contribution.

G u e s t s i n c l u d e Kevin Greir of DUSD, Pat f rom the Livermore Club (next week’s speak-er), former member Jim Telfer , and DHS Librarian Glen Walters. He gave a spirited and emotional thanks for Dublin Rotary’s donation of more than

1,000 books to the Dublin High School Library over the past 16 years. He read notes of thanks for both his services and care to students, and his love of books. He mentioned both Alan Brownand Pat Zahn as members who have

carried on, or started, the tradition of donating books. He showed us one painting from a grateful student who was inspired to the nursing fi eld be-cause of Glen’s care and concern. Part of his emotion related to this being his last week before retirement.

RichBo, only weeks away from being the head honcho, reported the action the Board took the night before to stop the financial

bleeding the club is taking because of the high cost of lunches and the lack of participation of many members. The dues for the coming year will stay at $300 per person and a new quarterly use fee of $120 will be levied against all members, payable each quarter. The combined fees for the year will thus be $780, but the cost of lunches for mem-bers will be reduced to $10. Speaking of the Board, here is a photo of some old Board members, some new Board members and some non-Board mem-bers. You can decide who’s who.

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Club Foundation Awards 3 Scholarships

Tuesdays• Livermore Valley 7:15 a.m.

Beeb’s Sports Bar and Grill,915 Club House Drive

• Danville/Sycamore 7:00 a.m.Crow Canyon Country Club,711 Silver Lake

• Castro Valley 12 noonRedwood Canyon Golf Course,17007 Redwood Road

Wednesdays• Livermore 12 noon

Elks Lodge, 940 Larkspur• Dougherty Valley/San Ramon

Canyon View Banquet Hall,680 Bollinger Canyon, San Ramon

• San Ramon Valley 5:10 to 6:40 p.m.Blackhawk Country Club,599 Blackhawk Club Drive

Thursdays• Pleasanton 12:15

Hap’s, 122 W. Neal• San Ramon 12:15

Crow Canyon Country Club,711 Silver Lake

• Tri-Valley Evening 6 p.m.Castlewood Country Club,707 Country Club Circle

Fridays• Pleasanton North, 12:15

Handles Gastro Pub, 855 Main St.

Where to Make up Missed Rotary Meet ings

The Club Foundation has recently awarded Dave Burton scholarships to one student from each of the three high schools. This year, the amount of each scholarship was increased from $1,000 to $1,500. The scholarship committee – Harold Ceizler, Larry Damaser, and Chris Kinzel – made the selections from among 17 ap-plications from Valley Christian High, Dublin High, and Valley High. Harold, Larry and Chris each made one presentation to the winners at the award assembly or graduation. The winners were extremely diffi cult to select because of the high quality and strong qualifi cations of the applicants. The committee worked with faculty members at each school to make the fi nal selections.

The winners were Jonathan Landgraf of Valley Christian High (top left), who will study computer science and phys-ics at Pomona College Claremont; Madison Hildebrand of Dublin High School (top right), to study civil engi-neering at U.C. Berkeley; and Ashanti Mitchell of Valley High School, who will attend cosmetology school.

5/12/16*Past President of Dublin Rotary

•Paul Harris Fellow

Dublin Rotary Membership

Editor: Chris D. KinzelDesign: Geri FoleyAssistant Editor: Stace ShursonSenior Photo Counselor: Mike Kyle

*Ackley, Dennis '97• dcackley@ackind.com Sheet Metal

Anyosa, John '14 janyosa@yahoo.com Advocate

*Bennett, Rich '95• richb5170@yahoo.com Pension Consulting

Benton, Bryan '13• bryan.benton@elephantbar.com Restaurant

Biddle, Don '05• dondonnab1@aol.com Retired

Boschetti, Rich '12• richard.boschetti@bankofthewest.com Banking

Brown, Alan '13 alanmbrown10@gmail.com Business & Security

Brown, Tinarsha '16 Tinarsha@interorealestate.com Realtor

Carvacho, Bo '08• bocarvacho@gmail.com Sports

*Cauchi, Jerry '06• jcauchi@cauchi.com Photographer

Ceizler, Harold '69• hceizler@aol.com Dentist

*Damaser, Larry '09• Larry.Damaser.RCGU@statefarm.com Insurance

*Delaporte, Tim '09• tadelaporte@gmail.com Financial

Della, Kamal '11• kamaldella@aol.com Real Estate Investments

Denlinger, Lee '04• lee_denlinger@yahoo.com Educator

Dunlop, Mona '94• mdunlop@pacbell.net Travel

Hanke, Steve '12• hankestephen@dublin.k12.ca.us Education

Haubert, David '13 david.haubert@dublin.ca.gov City Council Member

Herrera, Beverly '15 beverly.herrera@bhghomes.com Realtor

Herbstman, Cliff '68• cliffherbstman@gmail.com Telephone Wizard

Hoffman, Ted Jr. '90• thbp@earlanthonysdublinbowl.com Bowling Proprietor

Ichiuji, John '83• drjidds@pacbell.net Dentistry

Jenkins, Stephany '11 stephany@sbcglobal.net Real Estate

Johnson, Pamela '07• pjohnson041@comcast.net Retired

*Kinzel, Chris D. '87• ckinzel@tjkm.com Traffi c Engineer

Kulick, MC '09• mc_kulick@yahoo.com Content Marketing

*Kyle Michael E. '75• michael_e_kyle@msn.com Attorney

*Leuchi, Jeff '96• jclprint@msn.com Printing

Manuchehri, Parvin '11• parvin@claritywa.com Financial Planning

Marty, Shamekka '16 mekka/9@gmail.com Life Coach

*Mazur, Ron '85• ronmazur@jps.net Real Estate

*Miller, Dennis J. '79• drdjm16@gmail.com Chiropractor

Miller, Gregory '08 gmillerdc@gmail.com Chiropractor

*Moy, William '89• billmoy@timpsongarcia.com CPA

Murphy, Heather '14 b.ivie@comcast.net Government Finance

*Price, Don '09• donprice@elmonterv.com Recreation Vehicles

Pringle, Patty '13 patty@eastbaytaxpros.com Tax Advisor

Raney, Ed '96• edraneycpa@comcast.net CPA

Rouse, Megan '14 meganrouse@gmail.com Financial Planning

Ruhullah, Yusuf '14• premierpcp@yahoo.com Medical

Salvado, Keith '12 kh.licardo@gmail.com Insurance

*Shurson, Stacey '90• shursons@bgsurplus.com Insurance Broker

Smith, Linda '12 lsmith411@comcast.net Economic Development

Stanford, Athena '06 only1athena@yahoo.com Sales Manager

Strah, Melissa '13 melstrah@comcast.net Dental

Sullivan, Don '84• kathydonsullivan@yahoo.com Retired

*Thalblum, Janine '09• j.thalblum@comcast.net Insurances

*Tucknott, Bob '73• tucknottel@aol.com Electrical Contractor

Watanabe, Jerry '72• jerryhwatanabe@yahoo.com Orthodontist

Wong, Kinley '14 • kinley.wong@lfg.com Financial Planner

*Zahn, Pat '98• pzahn@comcast.net Librarian

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The Rotary Club of Dublin welcomes visitors! We meet on Tuesdays at 12:15 p.m. at the Dublin Ranch Golf Course at 5900 Signal Hill Drive at Fallon Road. (The club is in the process of relocating to a new facility; contact Co-President Mona Dunlop at mdunlop@pacbell.net for the current meeting location.) The Dublin Rotary Shamrock is published bi-weekly; the editor is Chris Kinzel who can be reached at ckinzel@tjkm.com. Contact Chris to be added to the mailing list.